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Laura Polverari - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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policy rhetoric versus Political Reality has the italian state given up on the mezzogiorno
Regional & Federal Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Laura PolverariAbstract:The goal to develop the Mezzogiorno has been a long-standing feature of Italian public policy, reflecting the enduring, and so far unsolved, duality between the developed Centre–North and the lagging South. The policy response has changed over time: from the ‘Special Intervention’ to the more recent nuova programmazione. This article focuses on the evolution of the nuova programmazione during the last few years, from 2007 to 2011. It shows that notwithstanding a restated formal commitment to raise the Mezzogiorno to a level similar to the rest of the country, the policy Reality has been a substantial abandonment of this goal. The article sheds light on the reasons behind the persistence of the Mezzogiorno problem, the challenges faced by redistributive policies in times of economic crisis, and the limits of the European Union's role as an external force to remove domestic blockages.
J W Bridge - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Abstract Law and Political Reality in the Post-European-Accession British Constitution
The Denning Law Journal, 2012Co-Authors: J W BridgeAbstract:Abstract Law and Political Reality in the Post-European-Accession British Constitution
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Abstract Law and Political Reality in the Post-European-Accession British Constitution
The Denning Law Journal, 2012Co-Authors: J W BridgeAbstract:Law and Political Reality in the Post-European-Accession British Constitution J. W Bridge'*' "the tide is advancing. It is no use our trying to stop it, any more than King Canute did. He got his feet wet. I expect we shall all get our feet wet too." Lord Denning! Introduction Just over fourteen years ago the United Kingdom acceded to the European Communities. Membership has necessarily involved accepting "the whole corpus of accumulated Community law, particularly in the decisions of the Court of Justice since 1952.,,2 Among those decisions, by far the most important and significant lay down the twin doctrines of the supremacy of Community law and the direct enforceability of Community law in the courts of the member states. At midnight on 31 December 1972/1 January 1973 we therefore entered a new constitutional world which is not an amorphous one but one which exists within a designed framework established by the Treaties. Our membership was initially subject to a period of transition,s but after that had passed we became subject to the full scope and force of Community law. As the European Court put it: "The expiry of the transitional period laid down by the Treaty meant that, from that time, those matters and areas explicitly attributed to the Community came under Community jurisdiction."6 Whilst some still minimise the domestic impact of membership of the Community as little more than participation in a Europe des ·Professor of Public Law in the University of Exeter. 1. "The Incoming Tide (Inaugural Lord Fletcher Lecture, 10 December 1979), in The Lord Fletcher Leaures 1979-1982 (1983), 3 at pA. 2. House of Lords, Select Committee on the European Communities, Session 1977-78, 17th Report, The Enlargement of the Community, Vol. 1, Annex A, para. 2. 3. See D. Lasok and J. W. Bridge, An Introduction to the Law and Institutions of the European Communities 3rd ed. (1982), pp. 116-153. 4. Cf J. D. 8. Mitchell, "Constitutional Law", in Then and Now 1799-1974 (1974), 73 at p.lOO. 5. See Treaty and Act of Accession 1972,)
John J. Williams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Change: Urban Governance and Urbanization in Zimbabwe
Urban Forum, 2016Co-Authors: Davison Muchadenyika, John J. WilliamsAbstract:Urbanization is an essential determinant of social change. For social change to take place, the process of urbanization requires extensive management (through urban governance). This paper outlines the context of Zimbabwe’s urban governance system by focusing on the historical and recent trends in urban governance and urbanization. In particular, our emphasis is placed on how pre- and post-colonial governments advanced social change through urban governance. In both pre- and post-independence Zimbabwe, local government is a Political Reality that ruling regimes manipulates, associates with and advance Political interests. Politics continue to shape and destabilize a functioning, independent, and autonomous form of urban governance in Zimbabwe. Urban governance remains under incessant threat from central government. Central-local government contestations are leading to poor service delivery; a development that is affecting social change. The article argues that the politics, governance, and institutional behaviors in urban centers of Zimbabwe deteriorated severely calling for a restructuring of urban governance.
Alfred Sommer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how public health policy is created scientific process and Political Reality
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001Co-Authors: Alfred SommerAbstract:Received for publication July 17, 2000, and accepted for publication November 3, 2000. From the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Reprint requests to Dr. Alfred Sommer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Suite W1041, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail address: asommer@jhsph.edu). The central premise of this symposium, that data can drive public policy, is both laudatory and even vaguely plausible. The historical record, however, is not encouraging. Galileo (1564–1642) recanted his solar-centric views rather than face the Inquisition. The Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweiss (1818–1865) was persecuted for blaming puerperal sepsis on his medical colleagues’ lack of hygiene; he died in an insane asylum. By definition, health policy is made in the public arena. The process is, therefore, subject to a complex array of considerations and influences, only some of which, sometimes none of which, have anything to do with data or with the public’s health. How else can it be explained that our ban on lead paint came over half a century after Australia’s? The most recent demise of national tobacco legislation had everything to do with manipulative powers of the tobacco industry and nothing to do with the 400,000 Americans who die prematurely each year from smoking. President Clinton’s decision in 1998 not to fund needle-exchange programs was admittedly made in the face of reliable data demonstrating such programs can dramatically reduce the incidence of human immunodeficiency virus infection without increasing the prevalence of intravenous drug abuse (1). More subtle than policy made in the face of existing data are research funding priorities and processes that determine whether data will exist at all. In an ideal world, health policy would be formulated in a rational, linear process, moving from data collection, to interpretation, to scientific consensus. These are the areas for which the epidemiologist is most responsible. Translating science to policy is far messier and convoluted, involving as it does societal priorities, resource allocation, opportunity costs, changing cultural mores, special interests, politics, prejudice, and pure greed.
Anneliese Dodds - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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british and french evaluation of international higher education issues an identical Political Reality
European Journal of Education, 2005Co-Authors: Anneliese DoddsAbstract:In both Britain and France, evaluation has been seen as one element of national strategies to internationalise higher education (HE), with the spread of evaluation indicating policy convergence. However, there are dangers in describing the cross-national adoption of evaluation as an instance of policy transfer in higher education. This article compares two evaluation agencies, the French Comite National de l’Evaluation des Etablissements Publics a caractere scientifique, culturel et professionnel (CNE) and the British Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), which have both been seen as guarantors of the quality of domestic HE, and concomitantly as elements in international HE promotion. It indicates considerable differences in the evaluation reports produced by each agency, and links these to the context in which they were produced: the institutional relationships between each agency, higher education institutions, and the state; and the general context of ‘evaluation’ in each country's public sphere. The article thus challenges analyses which have seen the proliferation of evaluation across national contexts as evidence of ‘policy transfer’ or of ‘homogenisation’. Instead, it shows how differences in an ostensibly similar ‘product’, the ‘quality reports’ produced by each agency, reflect the institutional context of evaluation and its role in public policy writ large.
